Goliath Depot Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)
Goliath Depot Review, Close all doors, kick away the enemies, and rack up your score in 4 worlds filled with single-screen levels inspired by tough-as-nail retro arcade platformers. Are you good enough to lift the curse of the Goliath Depot?
Goliath Depot Review Pros:
- Decent pixel art graphics.
- 127MB download size.
- Game options – screenshake, CRT filter, color saturation, vibration, and speed runner timer.
- Action platformer gameplay.
- The goal of the game is to close all the doors.
- You can stun and kick enemies.
- Collect coins within levels.
- In the game cutscene shows the rules of the game.
- Excellent Chiptune soundtrack.
- Supports two players locally.
- 3 save slots.
- Two difficulties – normal and extreme.
- Seven total characters with two available initially then five to unlock, but you do see the requirements.
- Each character has a dozen or so color choices.
- Before a run, you can choose to buy and activate power-ups like gliding, super crouch, etc.
- Earn coins for buying new powers.
- You have to run around slamming doors, collecting coins, and kicking the enemies off-screen all against the clock.
- The combo counter kicks in.
- When slamming a door it will stun an enemy and you can walk upto then to kick them away.
- Enemies will come back.
- Many enemy types.
- All plays on a 2D perspective.
- Very simple controls to learn.
- The game is very addictive.
- Has nods to older games.
- A speed runner’s dream.
- You get three lives, and then you have to pay with coins to continue or start again from scratch.
- Clever boss battles.
- Very moreish, even starting again doesn’t feel that bad as you go back and do better.
Goliath Depot Review Cons:
- It cannot remap controls.
- No online play.
- Extreme difficulty has to be unlocked first.
- No online leaderboards.
- The tutorial is just a blink and you miss the cutscenes without in-game help.
- You cannot view controls once in the game.
- The jump is very small and takes some getting used to.
- Just touching a spring will trigger you to stand on it properly and you have to use it.
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Goliath Depot:
Developer: Vivad Games
Publisher: Flynns Arcade Publishing.
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